Dash of Mystery to go with Misery

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[miss-ingno]

When you're watching foreign shows with German subs

and can immediately tell they were (mis-)translated from the Eng Subs

"Wie auch immer..." says the narrator during a highly tense scene that is truly tragic drama

Because the English subs clearly used "However..." with the dramatic pause

And "how" = "wie" and "ever" = "immer"

And sure, the dictionary suggest "wie auch immer" as a translation for "however"

And yet.

And yet.

It completely changes the tone from dramatic to ridiculous!

Because "wie auch immer" is much closer to "anyhow", a way to end the current topic and move on. It lightens the mood.

"However" instead heightens the tension, implies stakes, implies conflict.

"Wie auch immer" ends the conflict, case closed, we're done here.

And it keeps kicking me out of the suspense 😭

[shoku-and-awe]

If there’s one thing about my brother, it’s probably that he might be even worse than me

If there’s another thing about my brother, it’s probably Big Sandwich

[frontmansdefender]

RIP to the legend

[silvermoon424]

This goose fucking rocks and had a crazy life!

I really just have to summarize Thomas's entire life:

He was in a committed relationship with a male swan named Henry for 18-24 years before a female swan named Henrietta showed up and mated with Henry.

Thomas was initially jealous of the pair and attacked them, breaking 2 of the 5 eggs Henrietta had laid. However, once the remaining eggs hatched, Thomas warmed up to them and helped raise them.

Henry couldn't fly because of an injured wing, so Thomas taught the cygnets how to fly.

When they needed to reduce the goose population in the pond where Thomas and the swans lived, they dyed Thomas's feathers red so he wouldn't be separated from Henry.

Henry, Henrietta, and Thomas remained in their happy throuple for years and raised 68 cygnets before Henry died in 2009. After Henry's death, Henrietta found another swan and flew away, leaving Thomas alone.

Thomas finally met and mated with a female goose in 2011 and had his own babies. However, another goose named George stole them and raised them himself.

As Thomas grew elderly and blind, he was relocated to a wildlife center where he raised orphaned cygnets.

His caretaker at the center described him as "pretty high maintenance."

Thomas died in 2018 at the age of around 40. He had a funeral that included a small coffin and a procession that was led by a bagpiper. He was buried under the stone where Henry was buried, the two finally reunited in death.

Before and after his death, Thomas has been celebrated as an icon of the LGBTQ+ community for obvious reasons.

[catasters]

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

"I will play this game with honor despite your villainous trickery"

[fhtagn-and-tentacles]

WE'RE JUST LOOKING

by Alex Andreev

[brawltogethernow]

[nerdygaymormon]

[goth-queen]

[wedriftlikelonelyplanets]

🌻

omg it took me five million years to figure out how to word this

my favourite thing when i schedule people in for appointments at work is the following: new client calls to schedule their cat in for an appointment. I go through the standard questions. Name, address, phone number, cat's name, cat's age.

And then i ask the kicker question. "What kind of cat do you have"

the answers range from "Orange?" to "I don't know I found him in a garbage bin"

at this point I ask "does your cat have long hair, short hair, or medium hair"

it's just very cute. I love when people think cat colours denote breeds.

[productofaritual]

Love character relationships that can only be described as "whatever the fuck these two have going on"

[escuerzoresucitado]

[findingfeather]

I absolutely fucking hate this. Gold star, no notes.

[sashasienna]

[lisyamoska-artist]

[yourreddancer]

The European Union already forced Apple to abandon its proprietary charging port and adopt USB-C across its entire iPhone lineup. It just did something bigger. A new EU mandate requires every smartphone sold in Europe including Apple devices to feature a battery that can be replaced by the user without specialist tools, without voiding a warranty, and without sending the device to a manufacturer approved service center. Batteries must maintain a minimum capacity threshold after a set number of charge cycles and replacement parts must remain available for up to ten years after a model goes on sale.

The consumer electronics industry built its current business model around batteries that degrade, cannot be replaced at home, and create a natural upgrade cycle every two to three years. The EU just legislated that model out of existence in the world's largest regulatory market.

Apple, Samsung, and every other manufacturer now faces a choice between redesigning their devices for the European market or accepting that their current hardware architecture is no longer legally sellable there.

Given that no company walks away from European consumers voluntarily the phones are going to change and once they change for Europe the rest of the world will ask why theirs still do not.

[dreamsrunfaster]

[yorgen-sh]

[penandinkprincess]

parenting commitment level 3000

[penandinkprincess]

apparently a requirement for working at poison control is a talent for stand-up comedy

[starsarefairylightsfornerds]

[dogposts]

Found this sleepyhead in the local park

[byjove]

countries will be like “nooooo our birth rate is falling exponentially and it’s effecting our economy” and immigrants will be like “hey can you let us in so we can boost your economy and fill your empty jobs and raise our children here” and inevitably the country is like “the only thing worse than a large scale collapse of our population is letting foreigners live here”